It has come to my attention that the the score keeper has made a blunder and incorrectly calculated your combined net score from the two-day tournament! The handicap was deducted from the combined gross score, but as we played 36 holes, the handicap should have been deducted twice to get a correct net score, of course!

Please check the corrected score list at:
http://www.scandinaviancup.com/2006/05/may-2006-results-total.html

Luckily this mistake had very little impact on the results. Some places around 13th-16th and 24th-26th place were shifted around.

I apologize for this mistake!

Johan
Score Keeper

Please check them by clicking Results. Then you can choose to see results for either day, or the combined total results for both days.

More news from the tournament, along with photos will be posted soon.

Dear golfers!

Finally, after 50 years of waiting, it’s now time for the 50th anniversary tournament. As announced earlier, this will be a tournament held as in the old days, and as the 35-years tournament, a TWO-DAY competition.
The golf club, Windsor PG&CC, has given us a favourable price, and lodging facilities are available at the Club as well as at Motegi Race course just 9 km away.

On the first day we all start from tee number 1 and on the second day, like in professional golf, the leaders will start in the last group so that they can keep an eye on each other. The second day however, the lower half starts at hole no. 10 and the upper half, after the first day’s competition, starts from hole no. 1.
We will have separate near pin, driving and other competitions for both days.

The new homepage is ready and you can sign up over the net directly or by e-mail if you like. As you can see at the homepage there are many sponsors with very nice prices. The TOTAL value of the prices we have as of today is over 1,500,000¥en!!!!
The winner will fly to Scandinavia with Finnair in Business class. Two other will do the same with SAS, a little further back in the plane though.
As of today we have 15 major sponsors but if your company is not on the list it’s not too late to join. The homepage can be adjusted. Platinum sponsors means a price worth more than 100,000¥en, Gold above 50,000.

Enclosed you will find a preliminary agenda, which may be adjusted later on. (See bottom of this page.)

As for the lodging, only 31 beds are available at Windsor (of which two can stay in a tatami room). We have decided to give priority to the rooms at WPGCC to the generous sponsors. The rooms at Motegi are bigger with much softer beds than at Windsor and it’s only a 15 minutes drive to the hotel. To bring the price down you can always share a room with a friend. See details at the separate room booking enclosure.

We hope that it will be an attractive tournament and at the moment we have reserved for 60 people. Please sign up as soon as you can so that we can make some changes if needed. As for lodging first ones to reserve have a chance at remaining rooms at Windsor. If you like you are also welcome to bring a non-playing guest to support you. The cost for the guest is of course room fee and dining (10,000¥) only.

The cost for all mentioned in the agenda is 29,800 yen. The cost for room and breakfast is additional. To cover special prices and a memorial item we have to charge a special competition fee of 8000 yen. The 8000 will be collected Friday night and the rest you have to pay directly to Windsor Park when you check out on Saturday. (Rooms at Motegi, when checking out from Motegi.)
Thus the total cost for all for the two days will then be roughly 45,000yen. I think it’s good value for the money compared with offers from other golf courses.

There is plenty of time to practise and you can join WPGCC as a VIP member to bring down the cost further, see;
http://www.wpgcc.com/pm/index.html/ I think it still possible to sign up.

Mot golfbanan nuförtiden! (Against the golfrail nowfortime!)

Kjell, Modde, Johan, Calle & Maquie

Attachments:

Tentative Time Schedule

Friday May-19

09:00 Preferable latest arrival to Windsor
10:00 Preliminary First start from hole 1 (Estimate 60 players)
12:00 First team reaches a quick sandwich break after 9 holes
14:30 First team reaches 18th green
16:00 Last team on 18th green
18:00 Cocktail in the Garden (with some questionnaire competition)
19:00 5 Course French Gala Dinner including wine
21:00 Various games in the house

Saturday May-20

07:00 Breakfast at hotels
08:00 First start from hole 1 (The best half , leaders in last ball)
08:00 First start from hole 10 (The lower half from first day)
– 10 minutes sandwich break -
14:00 Last team on 18th green
15:00 Buffet lunch or barbecue with drinks, followed by price ceremony
17:00 Time to leave Windsor Park Golf & Country Club

Room Rate and Bookings

Windsor Park Golf & Country Club

Price per person per night, including breakfast 6800yen
(Just breakfast, Jap or western, is 1500¥)

Motegi Ring Hotel

Single use with buffet style breakfast 11550yen
Single use without breakfast 10500yen
Double use with buffet style breakfast 8400yen/person
Double use without breakfast 7350yen/person

Please e-mail your choice of room to <kjell.groth(AT)astrazeneca.com>:

Windsor Park
a)Double use, all are booked out by main sponsors.
b)Single use
c)One tatami room for two

Motegi Ring Hotel
a)Double with breakfast together with ……………………….
b)Double without breakfast together with ……………………
c)Single with breakfast
d)Single without breakfast

No room
I don’t need a room, I’ll come back on Saturday morning again

Windsor Park Golf & Country Club (WPGCC)

WPGCC is the latest home of the Scandinavian Cup. It has been used once in the tournament’s history (May 2005) and is the scheduled course for the May 2006 2-Day tournament.

WPGCC is a lovely park style course located near Mito in Ibaraki Prefecture. It has rather wide fairways, low cut rough, and huge greens. The course Par is 72, 6155 yards from White Tee and is not that difficult, save for the green that are nearly PGA sized! You can check out the course layout at the WPGCC homepage.

Directions:

- Go on Joban Expressway from Tokyo (roughly 80 km).
- Turn off at Mito I.C.
- The course is approximately 20 km from the I.C., see map here.

Until further notice, all future tournaments will be played at WPGCC.

Please feel free to enter your comments about this course in the allocated space below!

Some online information on Windsor Golf & CC:

Official Homepage of WPGCC (English)
Official Homepage of WPGCC (Japanese)
FCCJ-SCCJ Autumn 2005 golf competition at WPGCC
Online booking at Golfdigest.co.jp
Golf in Japan feature on WPGCC

More details will follow shortly when the official invitation is sent out to the Nordic community within the next few days. In the meantime, be sure to mark May 19-20 in your calenders, and start practicing!